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PETAR BAKO, F, FARRELL, PENNSYLVANIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

vPatented J an. 2, 1917.

Application filed September 21, 1916. Serial No. 121,462.

To all whom t may concern: l

Be it known that I, PETAR BAKO, a subject of the King of I-Iungary, residing at Farrell, in the county of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania, have lnvented certain new i and useful Improvements in Rail-Joints, of

which the following 1s a. specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in rail joints.

The primary object of the invention'is the provision of a secure joining means for the adjacent ends of railway rails whereby the rails may be readily attached together and thereafter separated at will.,

A further object of the device is the provision. of a rail joint for railway rails whereby the lat-ter are locked in their operative longitudinal alinement by interengaging wedging means secured in position by a tread joining device.

With these general objects in view and others that will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and then claimed.

In the drawings forming a part of this application and in which like designating characters refer to corresponding parts throughout the several viewsz--Figure 1 is a side elevation of the present device operatively connecting two railway rails, the latter being broken away. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view through the connected portion of the same. Fig. 3 is a horizontal longitudinal section taken upon line III- -'III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section taken upon line IV-IV of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the two abutting end portions of the rails with the locking members detached. a perspective view of the tread connecting retaining member detached, and, Figs. 7 and 8 are different perspective views of the locking wedge employed with the. device.

In the present form of rail joint it will be understood that railway rails such as 10 and 11 are adapted to be retained in longitudinal alinement, the abutting end portions of two adjacent rails being preferably supported upon a railway tie 12. The opposite ends of each rail have the tread 13 and web 14 thereof cut-away in substantially similar manner with the exception that the receiving notches 15 formed in the webs 14 choring plate Fig. 6 1s have outer oblique end walls 16 which are arranged slanting or diverging in opposite directions upon the opposite end portions of each rail.

By referring especially to Fig. 5 of thewill be seen thatthe abutting the rails 10 and 11 have the drawings it end portions of treads 13 thereof vertically severed providing seats 17 upon the upper faces of the webs 14 adjacent each of theV said treads while the notches 15 formed Ain the webs have the ends 16 of the notches laterally converging, thereby forming receiving sockets with their enlarged entrance ends at the same side of the track for the adjacent ends of the rails'lO and 11. The portion of the webs 14 at the ends of the rails lying outwardly of the notches 15 provide seats 18 of less height than the web seats 17 heretofore referred to. A 'connecting wedge or an- 19 is provided of the form illustrated in Figs. 7 and 8 ofthe drawings to conform to the cut-away or interrupted portions of the two webs 14 of the adjacent rail end portions., Said wedge plate is substantially U- haped in form having opposite end portions 20 slidably receivable within the notches 15, the upper edge 21 of the plate at such ltimes lying Hush with the web seats 17 while the intermediate portion 22 of 'the lower face thereof is positioned upon the web seats 18." By this arrangement it will be seen that the wedge plate 11.9 supplies the cut-away portions of the webs 14 substantially completing such webs and forming4 a connection between the two rails, the plate ends 2O being retained within the notches 15 by their wedging insertion therein, an upward removal of the plate 19 being prevented by the incut arrangement of the notch walls 1G and the complementally formed inner faces 23 of the plate ends 20.

A locking rail 24 is arranged for overlying the end portions of the webs 14 and the wedge plate 19 as well as for supplying the interrupted portions of the rail treads 13, the said locking rail being of inverted U-shape in cross-section having a tread 25 positioned in alinement with the treads 13 of the rails 10 and 11 when the Opposite parallel sides 2G of the locking rail overlie the plate 19 and `rail webs 14 when operatively assemblcd as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. Then the locking rail 24 is so positioned, the inner face 27 of the tread 25 is seated upon the web seats 17 and the upper edge 21 ot the Wedge plate 19 while opposite iianges 28 are provided for the locking rail which rest upon the base flanges Q9 of the rails 10 and 11. Suitable holdtstedevices, such asspikes 30 are positioned through alining perforations 3l' in "the flanges 28 and 32 in the 'flanges Q9 being driven into the tie l2` whereby the locking rail 24 is firmly secured in its locking position with the Wedge plate and the joint between the Webs of the rails entirely covered, the rails being also operatively maintained upon the tie 12.

lVhat I claim as new is I l. A rail joint comprising adjacent rail ends having the terminal portions of the treads 'thereof severed forming seats upon the Atops oi the adjacent Webs, the said Webs being provided with notches having laterally tapered end Walls and with the end portions of the Webs cut-away forming seats of less height than the tops of the webs7 a connecting plate Wedgingly arranged within the said notches; and a locking rail overlying the said plate.

2. A rail joint comprising adjacent rail ends having the terminal portions of the treads thereof severed forming seats upon the tops of the adjacent Webs, the said webs being provided Vwith notches having laterally tapered end Walls and with the end portions of the Webs cnt-away forming seats of less height than the tops of the webs, a wedge plate having end portions laterally receivable within the said notches seated upon. the end portions of the webs and having its upper face in-alinen'ient with the tops of the webs, and a locking rail between the treads of the said rails overlying' the said plate.

S. A rail joint conijn'ising adjacent rail ends having the terminal portions of the Leidse@ treads thereof severed forming seats upon the tops of the adjacent Webs, the said Webs being provided with notches' having laterally tapered end Walls and with the end portions of the Webs cut-away forming seats of less height than the tops of the Webs, a. wedge plate having' end portions laterally receivable Within the said notches seated upon the end portions of the Webs and having its upper face in alinement with the tops of the webs, an inverted U-shaped locking rail Aprovided with a tread portion arranged in alinenient between the treads of the adjacent rails when operatively ar- A rail `oint coin )rising rail ends having theadjacent portions oi their treads cutavvay and vvith receiving notches 1n the adjacent portions oi the webs thereof, a. re-

movable. laterally insertible U-shaped Wedge' plate removably positioned within the said notches, and a locking rail :for the said plate having a tread portion connecting the interrupted tread portions of the rails when operatively arranged.

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